Citations:milk-sister
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English citations of milk-sister
Noun: "alternative spelling of milk sister"
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- 1997 — Anita Diamant, The Red Tent, Picador (2007), →ISBN, page 182:
- The woman on the bricks had been a playmate of her own son's infancy and his milk-sister — just like Joseph an me.
- 2000 — Jacob Neusner, Tamara Sonn, & Jonathan E. Brockopp, Judaism and Islam in Practice: A Sourcebook, Routledge (2000), →ISBN, page 86:
- That is to say, there are clear prohibitions against a man marrying his 'milk-sister' (a woman who was suckled at the same breast) or a female slave belonging to his wife.
- 2011 — Stephanie Dray, Song of the Nile, Berkley Books (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- "Let the little princess be a milk-sister to my son."